Hiscock Legal Aid Society CEO, Susan Horn, to retire in July

SYRACUSE — Susan Horn, president and CEO of Hiscock Legal Aid Society, plans to retire on July 31.

Horn announced her upcoming retirement in a letter to “Friends, Colleagues and Supporters” that was dated March 31. 

Hiscock Legal Aid Society (HLAS) operates at 351 S. Warren St. in Syracuse.

Horn has spent 32 years with Hiscock Legal Aid Society, including 26 years as president and CEO. In the letter, she called those 26 years “exciting and challenging.”

Suzanne Galbato, chair of Hiscock’s board of directors, has appointed a search committee, which former board chair Anthony Malavenda is leading. 

The committee, which includes board members and staff members, is working with consultant Patricia Pap of Boston, Massachusetts–based Management Information Exchange to conduct a “professional, thoughtful and thorough” search for Horn’s successor, according to Horn’s letter.

Horn also posted the job description to the letter, which is also available at the organization’s website: www.hiscocklegalaid.org/job-opportunities 

She called her tenure at HLAS “a time of enormous growth and change” for the organization, as well as for the “provision of civil legal services and indigent defense” in the community and throughout the state.

Horn also noted that “more change is on the horizon,” making it a time of “great challenge and great opportunity.” The HLAS board of directors, its staff, and Horn are “deeply committed to ensuring” that it remains a “premier” provider of legal assistance to those in need in Central New York and to “expanding, enhancing and improving those services.”

As for her “future path,” Horn intends to remain “actively engaged” with the issues of access to justice that she has worked on “for so long,” she said in the letter.